This article will show you how you can start your own management consulting firm as an entrepreneur. Management consulting is a growing field, where you come in to a business with outside experience as a manager, survey the business and provide recommendations as to how the business needs to change its management structure. Read on to find out how you can start your own management consultancy.

If you have previous management experience, or you are a very avid student of management, this may be the right business for you to start. There are many businesses out there with fairly “green” managers that have come up through the ranks, but don’t have any formal training.

An organization is at the mercy of its management. If the managers are weak, lack in motivating or empowering employees, or they don’t understand the vision of the company, that organization may be in serious trouble.

As a management consultant, you will perform evaluations, observations of employees, look at overall structures of management, and finally give recommendations in multiple areas that require change.

You may need to tape record interviews with employees so that you can take notes later, and you will need enough management experience of some kind under your belt so that you can provide sound advice.

To get this business started you will need a computer, telephone, basic contracts and non-disclosure agreements. It is recommended that you start locally near your home, but ultimately this will be a business requires extensive travel as you visit businesses all over the world that need advice. As you get more clients you can expand your business to include multiple auditors that provide a company-branded report back to the client.

If you are researching and evaluating the multiple options available to you to build your own home-based internet marketing business, it is imperative that you identify the quality characteristics of the options available to you.

In this article, a headline review will be given on two of the most respected internet marketing products available today. Both of these products are geared, structured and sold to enable the home-based internet entrepreneur to make money online. This comparison review features YourNetBiz, a premium and multi-layered product package and that of Maverick Money Makers, an exclusive coaching club geared towards affiliate marketing.

Firstly pricing of these internet marketing products is recognized as being at opposite ends of the pricing scale. There are, naturally, specific benefits of each of these product systems which enable the internet marketing entrepreneur to select an appropriate system to match their needs and budget. The Maverick programme is available for a monthly fee of around £40 and for this you have access to a comprehensive training and tutorial library, multiple suggestions, recommendations for affiliate marketing and regular email updates from Mack Micheals, the founder. Once you have purchased the monthly access to the marketing system, you immediately sign up to become an affiliate and can generate a recurring monthly fee for every new membership that you successfully convert.

The YourNetBiz system is significantly more comprehensive and has four internet marketing product packages ranging in price from around £300 to £1800 one time payment. In addition to this one time payment, you will be required to set up a monthly paid account with a hosting and payment management system. These combined costs can be as low as £20 per month, or double that for premium services.

The core offer of both of these internet marketing systems is training and practical learning about how to make money online. Within the Maverick programme, there are literally hundreds of hours of training tutorials, recorded both in audio and video. There is a 24 hour live customer support line enabling issues to be dealt with on an immediate basis. This system provides a very sound initial introduction into the world of internet marketing and how to make money online.

The YourNetBiz internet marketing system is also prolific in its provision of training materials and resources. One significant difference to acknowledge is that the YourNetBiz product suite is sold directly by existing members who then act as mentors, coaches and training guides to ensure that new members quickly learn the strategies of internet marketing and how to make money online. Within the YourNetBiz premium package, members have access to an exclusive and world-class travel club providing vacation solutions to destinations around the world.

One additional differentiator is that the YourNetBiz product system has pre-selected a range of digital, informational and personal development products which are exclusively available to all members for retail either as affiliate resale rights, arrangements or private label rights for personal branding.

Perhaps the most significant difference between Maverick Money Makers and YourNetBiz is the earnings potential and commission structure which relates to the sale of YourNetBiz product packages. As the unit volume required to make a significant income with Maverick is extremely high, so it will take a considerable amount of planning, preparation and effort to generate a sizeable monthly income. With the YourNetBiz package, as the unit values for the premium products are higher, so the commissions earned per sale range between £200 and £1200 depending upon product level. So for successful internet marketing entrepreneurs who can convert sales of the YourNetBiz product suite, the monthly earnings can quickly grow to exciting levels.

Anyone who has started their own business or who has been running their business for years; will agree on one thing – managing time effectively is pivotal to success or making money sooner. It is as simple as that, it directly influences your results in business.

If you have just started, it goes without saying that you are most likely juggling several balls at once. Helping hands are few, so you are forced to do everything and be everything, the accountant, the marketer and the visionary, etc. You work like a ‘one man army’, it leaves you out of breath and often overwhelmed.

There are only a certain amount of hours a day and you need to optimize how you spend those hours, because time is certainly money. If you are able to chalk out a time management strategy, your productivity will increase tremendously and so will your results.

Developing time management skills and finding ways to really leverage your time, is often pushed down the list of our priorities due to pressing operational demands. If you don’t have time to create a strategy, here are 5 simple ways that you can improve your time management skills and your results.

1. Be specific about goals and how to achieve them

Always align your actions with your goals. This might sound obvious, but are you doing it? There are two parts to this tip… first you need to have clear goals that you are working towards; with deadlines. How much money do you want to make by a certain time for example.

Secondly, you need to be clear on what you should be doing every day that will lead to the achievement of your bigger goals. Don’t aimlessly take action based on what you ‘think you should’ be doing. Your goals and actions need to be connected; otherwise you will find that you work on tasks that give you a sense of accomplishment, but no real results. It all starts with creating your roadmap to success.

2. Organize yourself

Implement whatever type of system will work best for you, but you need to have some sort of structure to be organized. Getting organized is about having an organized mind, and a system which supports you to do things more effectively and efficiently. There are many time management tools that ironically, unless used properly, are actually counterproductive. So don’t be put off if what you have tried doesn’t work, it most likely doesn’t work because you have not been shown how to make it work.

3. Know where you need to improve

Nobody is perfect, while you are good at some things, you could be weak at some others. Of course we all have our blind spots, but the real question is, are you open to identifying them? There is no point in learning new time management skills, if you haven’t mastered the skills you have now. Identify your time thieves, what are you doing that is undermining your results? Be honest with yourself and focus on correcting one thing at a time. You know if you don’t manage your email well or if you procrastinate every day, now you need to do something about it.

4. Develop your awareness skills

Time management is not only related to planning, prioritizing, delegating, etc. In fact, most of your struggles to manage your time come from you, and how you are thinking. Developing awareness at times when you don’t feel like doing something, or when you fear something or resist something, will help you to manage your time better.

Why? Let’s say that you are procrastinating with certain tasks. You might be procrastinating because you aren’t actually motivated to do that task, or you aren’t actually clear on why you are doing it. Either way, unless you take time to become aware of the reasons you are behaving the way you are, you won’t be able to fix the root, the cause of the problem. Until you fix the root of the problem, you will continue to experience it and your business will suffer as a result.

5. Stay focused

Even if you have your sights set on your goals, you might find it difficult to stay focused. Just before you begin the task at hand, make it easier for yourself to stay focused. Remove distractions around you, prevent interruptions and commit to completing the task before starting something else. It is when we start and stop, when we change our focus or we give into other stimulus, that we really waste the most time. There are many ways in which you can boost your focus, go for it!

Starting a business isn’t easy, but well worth it. Don’t waste time doing things ineffectively, when the effort required to master your time, will support you in mastering your success. Often, it is not time that is lacking, but time management skills – Kirstin O’Donovan